More grumbles about children
who didn't turn up regularly at the schools around Builth in the Victorian
years. The first
one comes from Llanganten Board School
in 1883...

20th
April1883

20th
April - "The attendance of some of the children in the
first class is very irregular. The little ones attend much better - Sewing
taught on both afternoons".The youngest
children were usually sent to school more regularly than the older ones.
This was because they were too small
to be able to help their parents with the essential jobs around the farm
or at home !
Another comment from Llandewi'r
Cwm School in 1895...

10th
May1895

This was written in the school
Log Book ...10th May - "Attendance on the
whole is fair but a few of the children are so irregular as to be practically
absent altogether".

Some teachers had
given up hope of getting the worst of the regular absentees to come to
school. The problem was not solved until new laws making school attendance
compulsory were properly enforced.